The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band
Smorgasbord
Release: Sept 09
KAR050
The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band
Sanctimonious High
Release: 10.08.09
KAR049
Biff
R. Edwards
Erling Halsne Juvik
Thomasar
Øyvind Grønner
Norway
11.08.09
11.09.09
12.09.09
Norway
USA
The End Records Europe
Spain
Benelux
Sweden
Sound Pollution Italy
Audioglobe Greece SoundForge France
Airbag
Big Robot
Brimstone
Circles End
Corvine
Funin
Gallery
Herr Nilsson
Lonely Crowd
Nordagust
Syme
Vaiping
Download:
The long wait from 2005's "Solstice" has been hard on the fans of Brimstone, and to call their new album overdue would be an understatement.But in this case the album is well worth the wait. The music on the album is of a qualityunparalleled in the history of Brimstone, and it is destined to become one of the albums of the year in 2009. The production techniques of H.P Gundersen and the rise in songwriting skill of the band provide the listener with a musical smorgasbord seldom seen in modern music. To try to label the music is an almost impossible task. That the music has a deep root in the 60/70`s tradition of music is clear but the amount of references, genres and originality makes most comparisons invalid, and any attempt to denounce Brimstone as "retro" or "stuck in the past" plain silly. The songs easilytranscends such fare, and the reviewer intent on pigeon-holing the band will have his work cut out for him.
Take for instance the way "Animal Riot Hill" segues impeccably from an almost Arctic Monkeys-style power rocker with Allman Brothers -guitars to a beautiful sax/mellotron-coda that wouldn't have been amiss on "In The Court Of The Crimson King", the pastoral acoustic beauty of state-of-the -world ballad "Godspeed Mother Earth" , the contrast between summery chords and dark lyrics on "A Hill Of Beans" or the pumping melodic grace of "Spain" with it's superb Beatle harmonies The supergroovy Latin rocker "The Great Yeah" conjures up the vision of what "The White Album" would have sounded like if Santana had recorded it, the infectious chug of first single "Sanctimonious High" is impossible to resist. The list could go on and on. There's only one thing you really have to take into consideration: The Brimstone Solar Radiation has made a killer album, and you would be a fool not to buy it.
And after you have listened the album to shreds, you can take consolation in the fact that Brimstone already have started work on their next album.
Instore gig for The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band
06.09.09
On the 7th of September, the Norwegian release date for the new album "Smorgasbord", The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band will do an instore gig at the recordstore Platekompaniet in Bergen, Norway. They'll start at 16.30 and will play tracks from the new album.
They'll also do a small gig at the cafe Legal a bit later that day. This should be a great warm up for the release party at Garage on 11th of September.
New video and single from
The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band!
07.08.09
Sanctimonious High
Karisma Records signs
The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band!
17.07.09
We are immensly proud to annouce that we've signed the Bergen based The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band!! Their new album, "Smorgasbord", will be released in September, and the first single, "Sanctimonious High", will be released digitally on August 10th. A video for that song will be released the same date.
Brimstone has already released two highly acclaimed albums, they've toured around Norway and Europe, and now they're finally out with their first album in 3 years.
Catch The Brimstone Solar Radiation Band live on August 11th at
the Øya Festival kick off in Oslo, Norway, on the Internasjonalen stage.